Centenary Lakes Nature Play
2018 Queensland Award of Excellence - Play Spaces
Landplan Landscape Architecture
Centenary Lakes Nature Play is a beautifully integrated imaginative play space, carefully crafted to provide a canvas for exploration and free play seldom on offer to today's children. The design team has achieved certification of nature-based bespoke design marking a significant advancement in landscape architecture and offering an exemplar for the broader uptake of Nature Play design. Be it hidden fairy gardens, giant snakes or physical challenges the play space successfully embeds itself into the Botanic Gardens providing opportunity to interact with water, nature and learn through creative play. The central watercourse fed by hand pump and rainwater was a creative and sustainable way to over come the challenges of a flat site whilst also achieving 100% retention of existing trees. The muted colours and successfully integrated play opportunities add to the splendour and intrigue of this space, which will no doubt become a go-to destination, and contribute to fostering environmental stewardship.
The central watercourse fed by hand pump and rainwater was a creative and sustainable way to over come the challenges of a flat site whilst also achieving 100% retention of existing trees. The muted colours and successfully integrated play opportunities add to the splendour and intrigue of this space, which will no doubt become a go-to destination, and contribute to fostering environmental stewardship.
